More accessible falla
The 'Falla Palleter-Erudit Orellana' incorporates new technologies and artificial intelligence with the UPV seal to make it more accessible to people with functional diversity.
[ 13/03/2025 ]
This year, the ‘Falla Palleter-Erudit Orellana’ will incorporate technology and artificial intelligence with the UPV seal to make it accessible to people with functional diversity. Under the slogan ‘An accessible world for all’, the project of this commission aims to highlight the importance of functional diversity and universal accessibility.
In this sense, the Universitat Politčcnica de Valčncia, together with Metric Salad, has designed an accessible route that will link the main and children's falla to guarantee the inclusion of all visitors.
To this end, various technologies will be implemented, such as sound and light sensors, together with a system based on artificial intelligence that will facilitate the experience of each visitor and help them understand and navigate the circuit that connects both monuments.
In addition, the route will have information in multiple languages, including sign language and Braille, thus guaranteeing an accessible experience for all.
As Nuria Lloret, professor at the Universitat Politčcnica de Valencia (UPV), explains, ‘those who visit the fallas will be able to take an accessible route between both, which will be designed with a corridor with sound sensors that will help blind people to make the visit. Likewise, the explanatory texts of each falla will be in Braille, and it will be possible to walk around them with any type of functional diversity'.
‘In the large falla, they will be able to interact with an artificial intelligence tool that, using a microphone, will allow them to request images that can be projected onto the falla in real-time. These images, developed by the tool, will offer the idea of a changing falla according to the projection of AI images that are projected at any given moment,’ emphasises Nuria Lloret.
For her part, the president of the Falla Palleter-Erudit Orellana, Paz Moreno, highlights that ‘functional diversity is something we live with every day but that sometimes we don't realise how many barriers there are to living in a city for a person with these characteristics’.
'Our project tries to make visible the barriers people with functional disabilities must overcome. It is important to remember that, at any time, we can all be in this situation, and we must raise awareness and educate society to respect all forms of diversity,' says Paz Moreno.
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